Services provided by the Institute

a)To assist the states, when required, in the investigation of the outbreaks of epidemic prone diseases ( No time line can be fixed);

b)Surveillance of epidemic prone diseases through State/Districts Surveillance Units (SSU/DSU) to detect the outbreak at the earliest ( No time line can be fixed);

c)Investigate rumors in cases of diseases that have been considered as eradicated/eliminated e.g. Smallpox, Guinea Worm, Yaws (1-7 working days of receipt of information from concerned state health authorities).

B. Diagnostic Services@

·Serological testing and confirmation of HIV infection (walk in clients: 1 working day, Referral clients: 7 working days), Serological investigation for Dengue (3-4 working days), Japanese Encephalitis (3-4 working days), Chikungunya viruses (3-4 working days) and Syphilis (1 working day);

·Isolation of different types of viruses such as Dengue virus (15 working days), Chikungunya virus (15 working days), JE virus(15 working days) and Rabies virus (10 working days);

·HIV/AIDS Counseling of direct walk in clients, patients and their families (1 day)

·Molecular diagnostic tests based on PCR/RT-PCR/gene sequencing for important epidemic-prone infectious diseases (3-10 working days) [only on samples referred from different Divisions of NCDC viz, Division of Microbiology, Division of Zoonosis, Centre for HIV/AIDS & Related Diseases etc.]

@ Subject to the availability of kits/diagnostic reagents

C. Other Services: Other important services provided by the Institute are:

a)Quality Control of Biologicals: The institute routinely provides quality control services for various vaccines like Hepatitis (15 working days), diagnostic test kits for AIDS (15 working days), etc.

b)Storage and supply of vaccines and other biological materials: The institute stores reagents, test kits and vaccines and distributes these to various state health directorates and medical colleges on request. It also provides larvivorous fish for the biological control of mosquitoes to various public health agencies ( as on demand in 3-4 working days);

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